Opinion

Malik Nazir After all, what does excessive spending really achieve? However much a host spends, someone may still complain that a dish was too salty, a course arrived late or a portion was too small. There is a particular…

Usuf Mir “The greatest way to honour those lost to violence is not to pass their pain on to another generation, but to break the chain of hatred and choose a life where humanity survives beyond revenge.” In the evenings, after…

Syed Majid Gilani When I look back at Srinagar today, many memories come back to me through the businesses I saw around me. They were ordinary things at the time, but somehow they have stayed with me. I have been watching…

Mohammad Muslim YUVA’s Mission YUVA initiative, initiated on June 28, 2025, signifies a clear departure from the paradigm of being just another job-seeking mission and towards enterprise formation, targeting 1.37 lakh…

Dr. Waseem Qader “Nature operates on geological time, completely indifferent to human convenience, and the locked plates beneath will eventually shift.” October 8 is not just a date on the calendar for the people of the Karnah…

S Ahmad For decades, manufacturing was largely defined by the principle of cutting, shaping, moulding and assembling. A block of metal was cut to make a component; a sheet was shaped into a part; a mould was created before a…

Shalinder Kumar “A subsidy is easy to announce and it makes good PR. But what moves a location decision is sustained relief on recurring cost.” Ask the chief financial officer of a Global Capability Centre what it costs to…

Atal Dulloo “An investor can plan around a known timeline. It is uncertainty that stalls a project.” On 9 and 10 October 2026, something quite interesting is going to happen at IIM Jammu. The J&K GCC Summit 2026, being…

S Ahmad A road is usually understood as a line on a map—a strip of asphalt connecting one destination to another, carrying people, goods and economic activity. For much of modern infrastructure planning, that has been its…

Tamanna Hazarika The female rulers of Zazzau show that women were not absent from African political history; in fact, they sometimes stood at the center of it. Bakwa Turunku helped shape the early growth of the state, Amina…